The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-23
THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE
COMMISSIONERS
Are to be Messrs. Cooley, Morrison
SchOOnmaker, Walker
and Bragg.
DR.. SOWERS'S STATE MENTSCON.
CERNING THE HEALTH
or the President Related BY Col.
Lament-Blds Opened for
Steel Guns.

tsrstate Commerce Commissioners:
Thomas M. Cooley, of Michigan, for
the term OF six years; William r.
Morrison, OF Illinois, for the term OF
five years; Augustus SchoonmakeY, of
New York, for the term of four years
Aldace f. Walker, of Vermont, for
the term of three years; Walter L
Brsgg, OF Alabama, for the term OF
two years.
The fact that Mr.. Cooley's name
heads the list does not necessarily in
dictate that he will be chairman Of the
commission, rs 1t must elect its own
chairman. Mr.. Cooley was recently
appointed by Judge Gresham receiver
OF the Wabash Railroad Company.
Aldace F. Walker is q Vermont law
yer about A years old, Republican
in politics, who studied law with Sen.
stor Edmuuds. served az colonel 10
the Union army, and has since then
prscticed law at Rutland. In the
Vermont Senate he has taken lead
ing part In framing legislation to
solve the railway problem and
has given much study to the
question. Augustus Schoonmaker is
lawyer of Kings on, N. Y, and was
always a close personal and political
friend of Gov. TiIden. He succeeded
Mr.. Fsirchild as Attorney General OF
New York State. Mr.. Bragg has been
q leading Democrat in Alabama for
some years. In 1881 he was made
President of the Alabama State Rail-
road Commission, and served in that
position four years, during which time
many important questions arising be.
tween the railroads and their GUS
toners were satisfactory adjusted.
Mr.. Morrison's public services were
we'll known.
Bids were opened today at the Office
Of the Secretary of the Navy for 1910
tons OF steel gun forSings and $500 tons
of steel armor plate for the completion
of the vessels now under construction
by the department. At the opening
there ware present besides Secretary
Whitney the Chief of the Ordinance
and Construction Bureau and the law
officer OF that department, the follow
ing representatives of steel producing
concerns of the country: Mr.. Daven.
port, OF the Midvale, Pa, Steel Com
psny; Msssrs. James Wharton, John
Fritz and Robert Ssyre, of The Bethle-
hem Company, and Mr.. Stackhouse,
OF the Cambria Iron Works, Johns
town, Pa. The bids for 1910 tons OF
steel gun forgings was as follows
Cambria Iron Company, 1851 ,513 80
Midvsle Steel Company, 1887 ,240
Bethlehem Iron Company, 1902, 230 70
, For the steel amor plate (about 450C
tons) there were but two bids
, as follows: Bethlehem Iron Com.
pany, $3,810,707 70; Cleveland Roll.
: ing Mill Company, $4,02l, $50. The
proposals of the Bethlehem Com
I, pany were accompanied by a memo.
randum saying that the prices named
were based on the conditions set out
. in the advertisement Of August 2lst
8 last. The company adds that theil
bids cover both srmor plate and CUR
forgings, and should therefore receive
8 preference, all things being equal
1 Secretary Whitney expressed himself
D greatly pleased with the result of the
3 bidding for the production in this coun
!, try of armor and gun steel. The ad
vsItisement issued by the department
I contained provision requiring the
i contractors to provide plant with al
4 needful appliances adequate 10 the
Q manufacturing of the forgings, and t
9 deliveries within periods ranging from
Il tbirty-three to fifty four months ate
9 the signing @! contracts in the case o
. gun steel. IL the case Of the armo
# plate the contrsc or is required to pro
J. vide within two and ope-halt years
/ plant capable OF forging or rolling Sol
l. tons of finished plates per month
o and to deliver all of the srmo
9 within two years thereafter. AT
v tached to the proposal mad,
o by the Bethlehem Company is al
offer to provide suitable plant with
in one and quarter years, instead o
the two and half years allowed TO,
=, the purpose. This company ais
8 states, in foot mole, that the armo
plate required by the department /
fully equal to the best plate manufsct
ured in Europe, and higher in grad
= than any made In this country. Thei
u bid proposes 10 supply such plate, anC
x they are prepared to demonstrate thei
> ability to do 30. If plate of a love-
quality will be acceptable to the de
. parsment, the company is prepared t
Z furnish it at lower price than tina
stated in their bid. All OF the bid
a were accompanied by certified checks
y for $4,000. The bid of the Cleveland
u Rolling Mill Company was handed tt
( the Secretary by a clerk after thu
u other bids had been opened, with thu
explanation that it had Just come t
. hand through the mails. When thu
" reading OF the bids had been com
! pleted Secretary Whitney announced
! that they would be taken under con
q sideration and the awards announced
y within fifteen days.
: Senator Cockrell, chairman OF the
u Senatorial Committee charged will
an investigation of the methods of the
Executive Department, has extended
his inquiries to the State, War anC
Naval Departments, sending requestI
: to the heads of these departments fol
information as to the condition Of pub
lie bus ess needs in the matter o
= clerical force and other particulars
The Senator called in person today a
. the War Department and had an in
y terview with several heads of bureau
!, in pursuance Of the inquiries.
!. SAiNSO DlatOo AJbOIhOJ huDoIb u
= Smith, OF Montana, has advised Com
= missioner Sparks, through the Attor
y ney General that the Supreme Court
Of that Territory has reversed the de
cision of the District Court in the cast
of the United States vs.. Williams &
. Smith, in which the government sueC
= for SIP 900 for timber trespass. The
( lower court decided against the gov
ernlnent, but on appeal prosecuted by
the United States Attorney, Judge
McIeary overruled the points of Law
: raised and held that the government
was entitled to recover.
/? Col. Lamont, in conversation today
! in regard to the Presidents health,
/ showed that the fears recently ex.
/, pressed by DR.. Sewers are not shared
! by the Presidents family and his in
) innate friends. The President, Col.
Lamont said, was to all appearances in
/ perfect health. He did not think DR..